Investigators described the assailant as an African American man with a tall, thin build, police said. He was wearing a brown shirt and dark backpack at the time and fled in an unknown direction after the incident, according to police.

An 83-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times by a man who broke into her Wayne County home, Pennsylvania state police said.

The assailant knocked on the woman's door and asked to use the phone, police said, then he stabbed her. The victim has been hospitalized for her injuries, police said.